Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French transporter "carry or convey across" (14c.), from Latin transportare, from trans- "across" (see trans-) + portare "to carry" (see port (n.1)). Sense of "carry away with strong feelings" is first recorded c.1500. Meaning "to carry away into banishment" is recorded from 1660s. The noun is attested from mid-15c., originally "mental exaltation;" sense of "means of transportation" is recorded from 1690s.

Example Sentences fortransport

He also procured a couple of mules to transport his baggage.

Indents had to be made out for transport, rations and ammunition.

It was a morning of unequalled delight approaching to transport.

Provision had, therefore, to be made for the requisite means of transport.

It's about the only way we could transport it, as the trails are too narrow for a wagon.

Manifestly it is impossible for him to transport the entire sum of his worldly effects.

It is proposed to transport passengers by means of the pneumatic tunnel.

Their gunboat Marmaris was sunk, and the transport Masul captured.

Then she, with both hands, raised his face to her lips in a transport of passion.

Then without a word, in a transport as it were, he tried to seize hold of her and press her in his arms.